Not School’s Phil-Fiction on the Novel “Age of Iron”

The Not School Philosophical Fiction group in June took Daniel Cole, Philip Cherny, and myself into a conversation on J.M. Coetzee's novel, Age of Iron. The story is about Mrs. Curren, who writes letters to her emigrated daughter about her own final years and the lives of friends caught in apartheid violence in South Africa. PEL Citizens can download the discussion from the Free Stuff page (under Not School Discussion Group Audio; scroll down to find all the discussions from the Fiction group together).

As always these conversations sprawl across the major story-lines and ideas within the book and that means SPOILERS. That also means if you haven't finished, started, or even thought about reading... then great; we try to talk about it all.

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